STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1365	By:	Peters

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to insurance; requiring insurer to approve certain claims; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6058B of Title 36, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
An insurer of individual and group health insurance policies which provides coverage for the natural or adopted child of an insured who is receiving services through the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services shall approve claims for a covered benefit when Medicaid has determined that the benefit is medically necessary. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-5382	AM	01/06/11